Sometimes silence is gold

On Friday, July 17, 2015, the Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov expressed his attitude to the closure of the Dynasty Foundation: “ This is a big loss for Russian science - and not only from the point of view of money, although they invested quite decent means, but also from the point of view of those standards, quite high, support for projects, assessing the work of scientists that they set. This, it seems to me, is a much bigger loss than those grants that will not arrive . ”

“ I really respect Dmitry Borisovich and the work that the Dynasty Foundation did. But what happened to the fund is in no way connected with his work in the field of science and the support of scientists, but is associated with another direction of his activity - he financed certain political organizations. Colleagues from the Ministry of Justice dealt with this, I think that they applied the law correctly. The law must be applied in any case - regardless of whether it is like it or not , ”said Dmitry Livanov. According to Interfax, the head of the Ministry of Education and Science also expressed the opinion that the decision to close the Dynasty Foundation is final.

According to the media, the minister also added that the last time I saw Zimin in February 2015, when he handed the founder of the Dynasty Foundation the first prize of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia “For Fidelity of Science”. After the cessation of the work of the Livanov Foundation, Dmitry Borisovich did not meet.

Based on materials www.bbc.com/russian/roling_news/2015/07/150717_RN_LIVANOV_DINASTIA_FUNDATION
http://ria.ru/society/2015717/1134380065.html
www.interfax.ru/russia/454506
http://tass.ru/nauka/2128050